Iowa

The Des Moines Water Works lawsuit might hit a little closer to home for some people here at Dordt College, especially for those who are involved in agriculture in the state of Iowa. In March 2015, the Water Works Company in Des Moines filed a lawsuit against three drainage districts north of the city on the Raccoon and Des Moines Rivers. They claim that there are massive problems with nitrates in Des Moines drinking water supplies. The company seems to believe that the nitrates have come from…

Outline: 1. Recognizing the problem: A recent flood has caused my employer to close its Iowa branch. The opportunity to take my dream job with a raise in pay and possible advancement has been presented. However, my spouse and children do not want to leave Iowa. All of our lifetime connections and family members are nearby. The recent flood has caused many hardships for our friends and neighbors. We feel a sense of obligation to help our friends and family. Also, my spouse feels a moral…

Adoption is a complicated thing, it can take months, weeks, years to be able to start your family. Many people adopt because they can not have a child of their own, some people adopt because they feel like those children that don’t have a family should have a family before another human being is brought into the world, then there is also the gay community but that goes with the can’t have a baby of their own category and some of the other. I wanna throw some facts down about adoption, and how…

Assisted suicide must be legal in Iowa. “The term assisted suicide refers to the practice of a physician prescribing legal drugs that allow terminally ill patients to end their own lives” (At issue: Assisted Suicide). It is illegal in Iowa right now, but it is legal in five states. “After numerous appeals, the case went to the Supreme Court in 2006 where the Court upheld the law. Washington State legalized assisted suicide in 2008, and the State of Montana…

After all, Harlan, her future husband, was safe at home in Iowa despite her father’s disapproval. Even with her brother gone, the Sprout family farm was able to remain productive. Even when Dorothy got a job a teacher in Emmetsburg, she still returned home occasionally to help out on the family farm. She saw working on the family farm as more of a nuisance than a patriotic undertaking like women in the WLA saw it as. Another Iowa farmwomen who was not a member of the WLA was Magdalena…

Garner-Hayfield High School is a coed public high school in Garner, Iowa. The school holds classes for students in grades 9 through 12 and there are about 400 pupils enrolled. There is a student to teacher ratio of 13:1. The student population gender divide is 51 percent male and 49 percent female. GHHS is part of the Garner-Hayfield Comm School District. State assessment results show a 94 percent proficiency in Mathematics and a 89 percent proficiency in English. It earned a bronze medal in US…

Living In Dubuque Iowa My cousin is moving to Dubuque this weekend from Chicago but she doesn’t believe that it is the right thing for her to do. But little do she know their are a lot of good things about this town. Such as all the good history that this town holds. Also there is a lot of fun things to do here as far as going snowboarding at sundown in the winter time. Or even going out enjoying the national parks like going to the Minds Of Spain or the Aubroritom. Dubuque has a lot of great…

In the making of the sport of Nascar a lot of differences was being solved and especially of one guy named Bill France sr. Bill was the founder of the sport called Nascar on February, 21, 1948 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Nascar is a sport based with motorized vehicles. The word Nascar means National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. In the beginning of the sport the cars were much slower and did not look like anything that is being driven today. Back in the beginning the cars were Ford…

This semester I completed my service learning component of the course at Iowa Legal Aid in Ottumwa, Iowa. While I was there, I had pretty easy and boring tasks, especially compared to Noah's experience while he was there as well. Things I did included stapling information packets, shredding and greeting the people who came into the office. Even though these were simple tasks, they were needed because since Iowa Legal Aid is not funded by the government, they get limited funds so they love any…

history class describes “modern sectionalism.” One such issue is The Iowa Falls Alden Consolidation. The word is out that Iowa Falls- Alden will soon be just Iowa Falls. The two districts together are on…